**EDIT**

In honor of the Director's Take from August 18th, 2023, taking a swing at reviewers for "mostly not recommending the game for the cancelled PvE component," I would like to take the time to detail the many other reasons why this game should not be supported anymore. The monetization for this game is horrific compared to OW1 where that game had LITERAL LOOTBOXES that felt better than this game's monetization system. Then there is the Season content with terrible Battle Passes, pretty much no new content to be heard of in terms of actual gameplay stuff (I.E new maps, new game modes, or any sort of progression whatsoever) except some crappy events here and there that have some FOMO skins (some of which are just releases of older event skins) or stupid filler garbage (this is explained down below in the next part) that shouldn't even be a part of the game anymore after the removal of loot boxes. For example, it makes sense to have filler stuff when you have a loot box system so that every loot box opened isn't guaranteed to have "good valued" items in it everytime, but when you move away from that system, those fillers become even more unnecessary and frankly insulting. Examples of fillers are Sprays, Weapon Charms, Player Avatars, and a multitude of other useless garbage that players aren't ACTUALLY looking forward to getting when they buy any bundle or do some event. Skins are what people like and are truly after, at least when it comes to monetized content. Another thing that is terrible about OW2 is releasing heroes for MONEY (yes albeit they become available to unlock later on for free, the fact that there is a period of time where they are effectually unavailable is unacceptable). In OW1, it never costed anything for a new hero, even with the initial cost of buying the game factored in, especially when you could easily of picked up the game on sale or on a grey key website for very cheap. So them saying the initial cost of purchasing the game was covering new hero development enough to not charge anything for them, is a bold faced lie. Everything about this game is just a slap in the face to the average video game consumer nowadays. Nothing this game offers is worth a quarter of what they ask for it. Greedy company, greedy monetization, terrible game design. As a friend of mine said in a review of theirs, and I will now add to mine, "The Blizzard of my childhood is dead", and I will add to it: This game is a mockery of what was and what could of been.

(Old review left below for posterity.)

Blizzard said they aren't doing the ACTUAL PvE that this game was literally suppose to exist for, and instead asked for more money for half baked cash grab garbage. So I'm not doing the ACTUAL positive review for this game like I was sure I was going to, if the PvE actually existed.

**EDIT** In honor of the Director's Take from August 18th, 2023, taking a swing at reviewers for "mostly not recommending the game for the cancelled PvE component," I would like to take the time to detail the many other reasons why this game should not be supported anymore. The monetization for this game is horrific compared to OW1 where that game had LITERAL LOOTBOXES that felt better than this game's monetization system. Then there is the Season content with terrible Battle Passes, pretty much no new content to be heard of in terms of actual gameplay stuff (I.E new maps, new game modes, or any sort of progression whatsoever) except some crappy events here and there that have some FOMO skins (some of which are just releases of older event skins) or stupid filler garbage (this is explained down below in the next part) that shouldn't even be a part of the game anymore after the removal of loot boxes. For example, it makes sense to have filler stuff when you have a loot box system so that every loot box opened isn't guaranteed to have "good valued" items in it everytime, but when you move away from that system, those fillers become even more unnecessary and frankly insulting. Examples of fillers are Sprays, Weapon Charms, Player Avatars, and a multitude of other useless garbage that players aren't ACTUALLY looking forward to getting when they buy any bundle or do some event. Skins are what people like and are truly after, at least when it comes to monetized content. Another thing that is terrible about OW2 is releasing heroes for MONEY (yes albeit they become available to unlock later on for free, the fact that there is a period of time where they are effectually unavailable is unacceptable). In OW1, it never costed anything for a new hero, even with the initial cost of buying the game factored in, especially when you could easily of picked up the game on sale or on a grey key website for very cheap. So them saying the initial cost of purchasing the game was covering new hero development enough to not charge anything for them, is a bold faced lie. Everything about this game is just a slap in the face to the average video game consumer nowadays. Nothing this game offers is worth a quarter of what they ask for it. Greedy company, greedy monetization, terrible game design. As a friend of mine said in a review of theirs, and I will now add to mine, "The Blizzard of my childhood is dead", and I will add to it: This game is a mockery of what was and what could of been. (Old review left below for posterity.) Blizzard said they aren't doing the ACTUAL PvE that this game was literally suppose to exist for, and instead asked for more money for half baked cash grab garbage. So I'm not doing the ACTUAL positive review for this game like I was sure I was going to, if the PvE actually existed.